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Happened Quotes

If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it Picture Quote #1

Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can scarely understand what has happened Picture Quote #1

What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words Picture Quote #1

I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no rules, or the rules sucked. Reading science fiction wasn’t about imagining myself into some more exciting life filled with adventure, it was about finding a world where things worked the way I wanted them to Picture Quote #1

You can’t deny they ever happened. You can’t deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain Picture Quote #1

A good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in Picture Quote #1

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It just happened. As though a moment comes when it’s both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made Picture Quote #1

... the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you’ve been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened Picture Quote #1

A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn’t tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been Picture Quote #1

Things shouldn’t hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you’re highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you’re an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that’s kind of relaxing Picture Quote #1

The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its name, I sensed everything before it happened. Like I knew a certain oldsmobile would stop even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside, I knew we’d have an accident in the rain. I didn’t care. They said they’d take me all the way Picture Quote #1

I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened Picture Quote #1

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What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa Picture Quote #1

There is a God. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance Picture Quote #1

Remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not Picture Quote #1

There’s no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn’t happened yet Picture Quote #1

A room? A nice room? A beautiful room? A beautiful room with bath? Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro... This happened and that happened... And then the days came and I was alone Picture Quote #1

What remains of your past if you didn’t allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don’t have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories Picture Quote #1

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And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong Picture Quote #1

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened Picture Quote #1

She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life? Picture Quote #1

I’m not saying I’m glad it happened. Not exactly. But I’m not sorry to be the person I am today, and to have the life I have now. Even though it’s not what I thought I wanted for my future, a year ago, it is what I want now Picture Quote #1

They weren’t moving. Perhaps I was dazzling then with my ineptitude. It had happened before Picture Quote #1

If I told you the whole story it would never end... What’s happened to me has happened to a thousand woman Picture Quote #1

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We’ve already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we’ve forgotten it Picture Quote #1

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become Picture Quote #1

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I couldn’t write, at least not by the bluntly and frequently expressed standards of anyone in a position to offer any encouragement and feedback Picture Quote #1

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you Picture Quote #1

We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere Picture Quote #1

Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five minutes you know each other. That everything that came after those first minutes was just details being filled in. Meaning: you already knew how deep the love was, how instinctually you felt about someone. What happened in their first five minutes? Time stopped Picture Quote #1

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If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it (Happened Quotes) Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can scarely understand what has happened (Happened Quotes) What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words (Happened Quotes) I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no rules, or the rules sucked. Reading science fiction wasn’t about imagining myself into some more exciting life filled with adventure, it was about finding a world where things worked the way I wanted them to (Happened Quotes) You can’t deny they ever happened. You can’t deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain (Happened Quotes) A good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in (Happened Quotes) It just happened. As though a moment comes when it’s both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made (Happened Quotes) ... the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you’ve been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened (Happened Quotes) A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn’t tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been (Happened Quotes) Things shouldn’t hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you’re highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you’re an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that’s kind of relaxing (Happened Quotes) The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its name, I sensed everything before it happened. Like I knew a certain oldsmobile would stop even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside, I knew we’d have an accident in the rain. I didn’t care. They said they’d take me all the way (Happened Quotes) I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened (Happened Quotes) What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa (Happened Quotes) There is a God. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance (Happened Quotes) Remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not (Happened Quotes) There’s no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn’t happened yet (Happened Quotes) A room? A nice room? A beautiful room? A beautiful room with bath? Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro... This happened and that happened... And then the days came and I was alone (Happened Quotes) What remains of your past if you didn’t allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don’t have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories (Happened Quotes) And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong (Happened Quotes) Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened (Happened Quotes) She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life? (Happened Quotes) I’m not saying I’m glad it happened. Not exactly. But I’m not sorry to be the person I am today, and to have the life I have now. Even though it’s not what I thought I wanted for my future, a year ago, it is what I want now (Happened Quotes) They weren’t moving. Perhaps I was dazzling then with my ineptitude. It had happened before (Happened Quotes) If I told you the whole story it would never end... What’s happened to me has happened to a thousand woman (Happened Quotes) We’ve already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we’ve forgotten it (Happened Quotes) I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become (Happened Quotes) What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I couldn’t write, at least not by the bluntly and frequently expressed standards of anyone in a position to offer any encouragement and feedback (Happened Quotes) Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you (Happened Quotes) We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere (Happened Quotes) Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five minutes you know each other. That everything that came after those first minutes was just details being filled in. Meaning: you already knew how deep the love was, how instinctually you felt about someone. What happened in their first five minutes? Time stopped (Happened Quotes)

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